Heath took office weeks later after a June General Election and stayed in power until 1974.

And records reveal how Savile was put forward for an OBE midway through Heath’s stint as PM.

The award was made in the New Year’s Honours List of 1972.

Top of the Pops presenter Savile ­officially received the honour in March of that year.

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Monster: Savile

The words: “The Prime Minister would not wish to submit the name of Mr Jimmy Savile for an MBE in the Birthday List,” appeared in a heavily censored note to civil servant Sir William Armstrong dated May 5 1970, when Wilson was still in power.

The notes goes on: “He would, ­however, be ready to consider his name again for a future list.”

Savile, who died in 2011 aged 84, became a Sir in 1992 following ­repeated attempts by Margaret Thatcher to have him knighted.

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Knight of realm: Savile with ultimate honour

The relationship between Savile and Heath is being probed by North Yorkshire Police.

The Yorkshire-born DJ had a home in Scarborough, North Yorks, where he is suspected of abusing ­children with local ice cream parlour boss Peter Jaconelli.

A picture published by the Sunday People in June showed Heath meeting 21-stone Jaconelli, who had become the ­resort’s mayor, at a civic ­reception in 1970.

The unnamed victim is said to have been targeted by the politician just over a year before he became Prime Minister after the boy was picked up by Savile.

The man claims he ­recognised his alleged abuser as Heath only when he saw the politician on TV several years later.

Earlier it was revealed a man had come forward to claim to police he had been abused by Heath at the age of 12 in a flat in Mayfair, central London, after he was picked up as a ­hitch-hiker when he ran away from home in 1961.

London’s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday that it had been decided “there were no lines of inquiry that could proportionately be pursued” in relation to that rape allegation.

Heath’s supporters have been highly critical of the allegations being made against him. Former Tory MP Matthew Parris today slammed the “idiocy” surrounding the claims.

But Heath is the highest-profile figure to emerge in allegations of a VIP paedophile ring.

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Campaigner: MP Watson

The Sunday People has led the way since campaigning Labour MP Tom Watson first asked David Cameron to investigate historic ­allegations of paedophile links to 10 Downing Street.